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Windows Media Player, WIndows Photo Gallery and now Windows Live Photo Gallery

Submitted by ballysallagh1 on June 12, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Windows Media Player has a photo libary fuctionality built in to it. Windows Photo Gallery has the same option but with added options for fixing pictures and Windows Live Photo Gallery is exactly the same program as Windows Photo Gallery just with a few more advanced editing options and photo sharing site intergration. If I want all the functionality I have to have all three installed.

Put all the photo features into one program.

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Discussion (6 comments)

icecone wrote on June 12, 2008, 1:27pm

same for mail:
windows mail, windows live mail
why doesn't windows mail support microsoft's hotmail???

adondai wrote on June 12, 2008, 1:38pm

windows 7 will not have windows mail, it will have windows live mail available as a link to download I'm guessing, in much the same was as Live Messenger was for Vista.

applejax wrote on June 12, 2008, 2:38pm

Agree with this. Live Gallery should simply be an Explorer view, and you should be able to activate these features anywhere.

acidphosphatase wrote on June 17, 2008, 12:47am

Mail, Photo gallery yadayada won't be in Win7 so no worries there.

ui_guy wrote on July 7, 2008, 11:06pm

Windows Media Player needs a complete overhaul. It has staggered and stumbled its way to version 11 and what do we have?
- No native DVD codec - why does the Apple Mac continue to get away with it?
- Stagnated support for popular audio and video formats. Microsoft continues its near blinkered ideology with wma/wmv.
- The interface is a mishmash of old client / new client and the outcome of it is that I still look for the old File Menu over using the slightly updated menu paradigm.
- What about the Zune - a fantastic player (not a bad device but not sold everywhere) but where does that leave WMP, or all the other mp3 players that support WMP? It's ludicrous.
- Poor integration with the OS as has been mentioned with multiple applications doing the same thing with slightly different results. Movie Maker, DVD Maker and Photo Gallery should all be extensions of WMP which should be the core product.

ballysallagh1 wrote on October 26, 2008, 10:33pm

It looks like like Microsoft are getting rid of a lot of programs in Windows 7 and instead offering them as a free dowload under the Windows Live brand. This gives the user a lot more choice and encourages competion from other vendors. Thanks Microsoft.

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